[img][/img]The other clovis points where fun to make, so I made a big one in glass! The fluting flakes at the base where worrying to drive off freehand, the last thing I wanted to do was break it. I think it turned out ok.

[img][/img]I have spent a little more time than I should knapping glass, it is rather un-authentic as a material unless you're dealing with Ishi points or Aborigional Kimbrley points, but as far as "art knapping" goes it's great! this is a mega long barbed and tanged arrowhead...

Here's some really old style points dating from the early neolithic and late mesolithic microlith industries and found widely afield including the UK.

Chisel points defy the convention that we've all grown up with, arrows get thinner at the tip, they get wider.

Most chisel points were very crude and had most of the original flake scar left on them, though a few were very fine prestige points.

Here's a my attempt at a crude one and a prestige one.

An even more common form of the point was the Transverse Chisel Point, Transverse points were knapped with the bulb of percussion perpendicular to one side of them rather than the more common, point facing the bulb.

I was inspired by the Brandon Knapper vids, http://www.youtube.com/user/UKKnappingForum/videos to have a go and see if their tecnique would work to make this style of point. I assembled a stone age version of the Brandon tools, shearing hammer and anvil,

and made these replicas. the very first one I made broke as I was pressure flaking it to create the inner curve, not surprisingly I guess as fractures naturally follow ridges. So for the next attempts I found and anvil stone with a curve and put the curve in as I shearing. A Brandon knapper could produc 3-4,000 flints per day, I guess something approaching this would be possible for an experience Transverse Point maker, if indeed this was the technique used.

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